* python/python-value.c (values_in_python): Add specific initialization

        to NULL to work-around a MacOS linker bug.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 4a24e60fa06aff2a59b0ad37382ab052da826863..5e34bbb7c19168fee3d20e7527eeb6c0a9e647a0 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-12-08  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+       * python/python-value.c (values_in_python): Add specific initialization
+       to NULL to work-around a MacOS linker bug.
+
 2008-12-08  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 
        Fix loc_type of `bp_location's created by update_watchpoint.

diff --git a/gdb/python/python-value.c b/gdb/python/python-value.c
index 8bf4ec892ff0e4f1f62dc61a6d1cd26f8be7e7d7..b23174ca2b793f3c7adafdcfdf5c2303e6e2b9a3 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/python/python-value.c
+++ b/gdb/python/python-value.c
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@
    can copy the values' types if needed.  This is declared
    unconditionally to reduce the number of uses of HAVE_PYTHON in the
    generic code.  */
-struct value *values_in_python;
+/* This variable is unnecessarily initialized to NULL in order to 
+   work around a linker bug on MacOS.  */
+struct value *values_in_python = NULL;
 
 #ifdef HAVE_PYTHON